On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:00:06 +0200, Vladimir Panteleev
<vladi...@thecybershadow.net> wrote:
On Friday, 30 December 2011 at 09:13:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Also, if you are tweaking at such a level, every compiler is different
enough that your tweaks are likely to be counterproductive on another
compiler. Having a portable syntax for such tweaking is not going to
help.
Which is exactly why I think an inlining pragma/attribute should provide
a guarantee, and not a hint. It's a web of assumptions/guarantees: asm
blocks provide their guarantees, but using them introduces new
assumptions, that e.g. force-inlining solidifies, etc.
I agree @inline (which will probably be an extension) in D should mean
force-inline.
Ignoring the impossible-to-inline cases (which in time should get better),
adding @inline is a few minutes of editing.
It will just bypass the cost function and if it is not possible to inline,
pop error. I don't have enough knowledge of DMD internals
so i am not sure if should go do it, or maybe i need to start somewhere...
